Since December 1999 the 3rd Interplanetary Network has been
producing small (~10') error boxes at a rate of about one
per week, and circulating them rapidly (~24 h) via the GCN.
As of June 2000, 24 such error boxes have been obtained; 18
of them have been searched in the radio and optical ranges
for counterparts, resulting in four definite counterpart
detections and three redshift determinations. We will review
these results and explain the some of the lesser known IPN
operations. In particular, we maintain an "early warning"
list of potential observers with pagers and cell phones, and
send messages to them to alert them to bursts for which
error boxes will be obtained, allowing them to prepare for
observations many hours before the complete spacecraft data
are received and the GCN message is issued. As an
interesting aside, now that the CGRO mission is terminated,
the IPN consists entirely of non-NASA and/or
non-astrophysics missions, specifically, Ulysses and Wind
(Space Physics), NEAR (Planetary Physics), and BeppoSAX
(ASI).